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I'm working on copy edits for ASHES OF ANGELS today, and ...

I'm working on copy edits for ASHES OF ANGELS today, and I just love this little exchange...




"Hi, honey, I'm home," the angel said. "What took you so long?" Cassandra spit. The vampire still held her by a shoulder, but if he twisted farther to look at the angel… "Sorry. I had to shake a car off my wings." "Your wings?" the vampire asked. "What, are you some kind of faery?" The angel straightened his shoulders and narrowed his eyes. "I say wings, and your first guess is faery?" He shook his head and made a come-and-get-me gesture with the fingers wrapped around the Taser. The vampire released Cassandra and turned to the angel in time to catch the Taser's copper hooks with his thighs. Sam preened over the powerful device and nodded. "This is nice. I gotta get one of these for myself." The vampire ripped out the hooks from his legs and growled. "Try again, you bloody faery." "You shouldn't use foul language in front of a lady." Tucking the Taser into a back pocket, the Fallen then held up a palm, fingers tight together, and pointed them toward the vampire. "You ready for this?" "Ready for—"            The angel shoved his spaded fingers through the vampire's chest, pulled him forward, and slapped his spasming body onto the ground.

Yay! I just found out FALLEN got a Top Pick from RT...

Yay!  I just found out FALLEN got a Top Pick from RTBookClub!  Doing my happy dance!

I've said it over and over: You don't have to read my boo...

I've said it over and over: You don't have to read my books in a specific order to understand them.  I write them as stand-alone stories, but often feature characters from other books because that ties my Beautiful Creatures world all together.
That said, I've put an ordered list up on my Amazon/Kindle book page for Beautiful Creatures.  This is almost the order that the books were released by the publisher(s), but not quite.  It is in order of characters, which means, if a couple had a child and that child got his/her story, then I've placed their book later.  And some of the Nocturne Bites actually came out after a book, but when looking at the timeline of my world, their story falls before other books.
Confusing?  I know.  Just read them however you like.  But if you're a stickler for putting things in order, take a browse over the list.  You have to choose Beautiful Creatures in the Browse By Category in the sidebar.

Opinions please!

I'm looking for opinions on this cover.  It's a historical vampire romance, that's all I'm saying because I want 'first glance' reactions.  Initial reactions?  Likes?  Dislikes?  Does it stand up against the books you've seen on the shelves in bookstores, or does it look amateurish?  Would you pick this one up and read the back cover blurb or would you pass it by?

Forever Vampire available at Net Galley

If you are a blogger and/or reviewer, I want you to know that FOREVER VAMPIRE is available at Net Galley now.  Release date is on or around April 19th.  If you don't do electronic ARCs I will be sending out paper copies when I get them (which might not be until end of March; but contact me about that).  I want to promote this story big.  So if you've read it for review, please contact me with your review.  I'd like to get some good quotes to use on my website.  And I want to spread the word!  I want EVERYONE to buy this book because Vail is one of my favorite heroes so far.  I'm hoping you all will love him as much as I do.

Okay, this was fun to wake up to this morning. Cata...

Okay, this was fun to wake up to this morning.  CataRomance.com gave ANGEL SLAYER their Reviewer's Choice award for the Nocturne category.  Go read the very cool review.

I also just found out that the Nocturne Bite I just handed in, tentatively titled, THIS GLAMOROUS EVIL, is scheduled for July!

Found this at Amazon today. This one is out in May....

Found this at Amazon today.  This one is out in May.  And yes, I did write it!

Just to clarify...I've seen in some reviews, and even in ...

Just to clarify...
I've seen in some reviews, and even in the promotional blurbs that go out from the publisher, that put Her Vampire Husband, Seducing the Vampire, and Forever Vampire into a series.  They are not in a series.  Each are stand-alone books in the Beautiful Creatures world.  If you want to get technical, Forever Vampire may be considered a sequel to Seducing The Vampire, but it is very much a stand-alone book.  It simply features the son of the characters from Seducing.  So some may consider that a sequel.

Just wanted to make that point, as some worry if they miss a certain book in a series that they can't read the others until they've read that one.

Just in!

I'm so excited!  I made up some Hero Collector Cards, and they just arrived.  They look awesome!  If these go over well, I'll continue to make them up for future and past heroes.  I have only these three to begin with.  If you want all three, just send a SASE to Michele Hauf, PO Box 23, Anoka, MN 55303.  (they will fit in #10 business envelope or that smaller size that you use to send checks in.)

Trapped!

I watched the movie FROZEN last night.  Who'd a thought you could pack an exciting movie into the idea of a couple kids getting stuck on a ski lift?  What an exercise in screenwriting, to have that one small location to work with.  It wasn't the greatest movie ever made, but it had me on the edge of my seat once they were stuck.  Seriously, the wolves!
Got me to thinking about other movies that succeeded using the idea of a few characters being trapped in one location.  Remember CUJO?  The mother and son trapped in their car because their dog (did it have rabies?) was raging outside?  How about the recent DEVIL, with the people trapped on an elevator?  I really enjoyed that one.  And what was the Ryan Reynolds' flick with him buried alive in a coffin?  BURIED?  Haven't seen that one, but bet it would be good, though I will never see it because that would stir up some nasty memories.  I used to have recurrent dreams of being buried alive when I was a kid.  Ugg.
Anyway, it's something for a writer to think about.  The writers of these stories were able to build dramatic, tense films into such small confines.  So shouldn't I be able to do the same with my vast story?  Or do you think stories like that transfer better to film than the page?  Probably would be more exciting viewing a person trapped inside a coffin than reading it.  Maybe?  Of course, that brings to mind King's GERALD'S GAME, where the wife was trapped, handcuffed to the bed, with her dead husband lying nearby.  That one freaked me.
What are some other movies/books that put the protagonists in one enclosed spot for the duration of the story?